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New animals include a fox, a bat, a gorilla, a deer, a rhino, an eagle, a duck, an owl, a lizard, a shark, a shrimp and a squid.

First, second and third place medals have been added to "activities" alongside a boxing glove, a person doing a cartwheel, a wrestler and a juggler.

Emoji are undergoing a constant reinvention. Google wants better emoji representation for women, and earlier this month, Facebook revealed 1,500 new emoji to "increase representation". An April 2015 update added LGBT characters, and objects such as burritos and middle fingers were added in the last Unicode update.

Unicode 9 will be released on June 21. Not all of these 72 emoji will make their way to phones, and the definitive list will be released at the end of this month.